Howardena Pindell

Howardena Pindell (born April 14, 1943) is an American artist, curator, critic, and educator. She is known as a painter and mixed media artist who uses a wide variety of techniques and materials. Quotes "Artist Howardena Pindell on understanding 'the trauma of racism'" (2020) "Artist Howardena Pindell on understanding 'the trauma of racism'" The Guardian,(2 November 2020), by Nadja Sayej You really must be paranoid. That has never happened to me or anyone I know, but they are free, white and 21. The general reaction was pretty hostile,. Dealing with the black body back then? Forget it. People didn’t want to talk about racism. The trauma of racism, I feel, is there for everyone to see. If you are not a person of color, you may not even notice what is going on. When you look different, you can become a target for others’ unresolved issues, where they take out their rage on people who do not look like them. It deals with the horrors of lynching, slavery and the children’s march for civil rights also in Birmingham, Alabama, where a church was bombed. I think of the little girls’ families preparing them for Sunday school and someone setting off 15 sticks of dynamite to kill them. Their day started normally. They were dead at the hands of racist assassins. They were sold to me by an antique store. A man had wanted to open a history of slavery museum, but no one was interested, so he scattered these objects around antique shops. It was toxic. There were nice people, but my boss was mean. We had to sign up to go to the bathroom or the library. The threat was, ‘We’re going to come and get you if you stay too long. I was on the outside of their social circuit. I am troubled by the encouraging of hate and division and racism by our most powerful government official, as Covid pushes us even deeper into the abyss. There are the pro-science and the science deniers, who have led to a lot of unnecessary deaths. I am worried about the election and the supreme court. Selling Indigenous people in Europe is what Columbus did, unknown to most of us. It’s something we don’t hear about. There were very few books about African Americans or people of color, in general. If there was an image, it was a stereotype, a minstrel image. I love books, as there are now books available concerning our history. I suggest that people be informed, so that they can be informed, contributing members of society. We have so many more options now, but we also have so many troubling issues. External links Category:Educators from the United States Category:Painters from the United States Category:1943 births Category:Women academics from the United States Category:African Americans Category:Curators Category:Yale University alumni Category:Women born in the 1940s Category:Living people